I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.
— Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Note: While there are many things I do not see eye-to-eye with Merton on, this observation is right on the money.
If ever one wished to render the church’s message obsolete and her existence pointless, adopting queerness would seem a most excellent way to do it. Queer theory is the perfect tool for demolishing any “oppressive” dogma or claim to transcendent truth. But if the church has no truth to proclaim, why does she exist? Or, more pointedly, why should anyone bother with her?
— Carl R. Trueman, “Lessons from the Decline of Protestant Churches”
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